Deriving projects from the organisational vision using the Vision-to-Projects (V2P) Framework

Abstract

Organisations initiate and execute projects at an ever-increasing rate in order to achieve their strategic intentions. Many of these, however, find it difficult to measure the contribution that these projects make towards the realisation of the organisational vision. In order to effect these changes in a cumulatively beneficial way, a holistic approach is needed. The Vision-to-Projects (V2P) Framework was developed to facilitate such an approach and can be applied to all organisational types. This article shows how participatory action research was applied in the development of the V2P Framework. While largely validating the theoretical framework, it did indeed reveal several beneficial modifications to improve its applicability. The main results of this research are twofold. It firstly provides organisations with a framework that can be used to derive projects from the organisational vision and strategies, thereby ensuring continuous alignment. Secondly, it shows the successful use of participatory action research in the field of project management that has been dominated, thus far, by quantitative research methods